Minnesota River Trail
Bloomington / Burnsville / Savage · Twin Cities South
Land manager: Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, federal). Trail maintenance in partnership with Minnesota Off-Road Cyclists (MORC). Known locally as "the River Bottoms" -- an informal, naturally-shifting trail network along the Minnesota River floodplain, distinct from the purpose-built systems elsewhere in this dataset. Total singletrack mileage is not officially published as one figure; see trail_systems description for the specific named segments and their individually-sourced distances.
Trail systems
Minnesota River Trail
Informal, braided trail network in the Minnesota River floodplain within Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, maintained by MORC volunteers in cooperation with refuge land managers -- not a purpose-built singletrack system like most other Twin Cities destinations. NO single official total-mileage figure exists: sources describe different, non-equivalent scopes -- a specific named segment ("Lyndale Ave to Bloomington Ferry Rd") at 7.1mi, a different "longest trail in the network" at 6.9mi, and the refuge's own figure of 45+ miles of ALL trail types (paved, hiking, biking) across the entire 14,000-acre refuge, not MTB-singletrack-specific. total_miles intentionally left null rather than picking one of these.
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